Pros: Unlimited free time because they make up busy work.

Cons: No work for engineers at all.

Pros: Good place for work/life balance. You have the flexibility to work remotely or from home. Big company with many areas of opportunities to work in. The company rewards you for innovating and coming up with ideas that generate patents. The people are generally competent and easy to work with.

Cons: Large company with plenty of red tape. Sometimes, it can be very political. Working across groups and components can be challenging. There can be a lot of negotiating between groups on how to split revenue, and this can hamper or completely halt a project. Different groups internally may have similar products that compete with each other.

Pros: A wealth of intelligent and helpful people. Benefits are competitive. Salary is competitive. Huge company so you can go just about anywhere and there are endless opportunities to learn new things.

Cons: Old school company. It is trying to act/react like a cutting-edge, small company, and it's just not feasible. There are too many high-level management personnel who just want to keep doing the same thing over and over. The review process is all politics. If you're not constantly "contributing by delivering services for use by the client," then you are at risk of being laid off. This makes it a bit difficult to tell where you stand, as you could be working on a huge project that gets scrapped. Then you have nothing to show for it, and that creates an issue when the time for more layoffs comes.